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Newspaper
New Ross Mail
Location
New Ross, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1899
Page
1
Notice shows James Town Indiana post office second class matter with weekly Friday publication. Subscription terms list one year at 500 six months at 25c per six months. less than six months 1 cent per week. single copy 2c. payment strictly in advance.
Local business page highlights Gibsons New York Store and Camplins Bargain Store with heavy discounts on suits shoes fabrics and furniture. Dinners at Dale's Lebanon restaurants and 25 percent reductions on dress goods and Oxford ties feature alongside seed wheat and Clover seed requests.
A stream of short items records movements visits and events in Crawfordsville Advance and nearby places. Individuals such as Rose Petticord William Peterson Fred Jessee George Powell Marion Rhoads and others are listed with brief travels and social notes. The column mentions a wheel meet at New Ross a church service a band concert and a drought of brick for a school building along with local business and laundry services.
Mrs Evaline Nicely not expected to live. J McClure of Max moved to Orth last Thursday. C H Bruce drove his cattle to Crawfordsville Tuesday. Fanny Faust very low with cerebro spinal meningitis. Lizzie and son Charley of Roachdale visiting here. Alex Vangorden and J W Mc Laughlin traded horses. Several plan to attend Fountain reunion Sunday. M Love spent Sunday at Darlington with brother Louis. Sophia Mount returned from visit with sons in Darlington. Miss May Morris to teach No 1 for coming term. Report of a hold up on road between here and Fountain with revolver taken ear of former citizen.
Ira Gibson, who worked on the Jamestown Press for the past year, returned home Tuesday after resigning due to ill health. He has spent this week near the creek banks and plans to seek work in Indianapolis, leaving the paper with a badly broken press to remember him by.
The program for a union meeting of Christian churches at Fountain church area next Sunday includes music led by Harvey Watts, devotional segments by C F Martin and W L Anderson, songs by children, multiple sermons by M C Brewer S G Smith and W T Brooks, a communal dinner at noon, and tempered by the use of temperance books with every singer asked to bring a copy.
Money To Loan. If you have a loan to renew or con template borrowing money, note the following liberal terms: 1st. We make loans for a term of ten years with the privilege of repayment of any amount at any time. 2nd. We allow you the privilege of paying your interest any month in the year most convenient to you. 3rd. No charges for examination of title, security or for recording mortgage. 4th. Interest made payable at the Citizens Bank, Jamestown, so you are not to the expense and trouble of sending it to some distant point. PIERSOL & ROBERTS Jamestown, Ind.
A south bound Vandalia train wreck occurred at Heckland when a car door was placed in a cattleguard by a miscreant. The engineer was killed and the fireman badly injured while the rest of the crew escaped. The incident occurred last Friday.
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